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Facts and Figures

Get a brief overview of Austria’s packaging and printing industry with these facts and figures.

Packaging

Source: Austrian Association of the Paper and Board Converting Industry, Annual report 2011

Material

Share on total production in %

Paper, card, cardboard

36.6

Glass

22.9

Plastics

20.6

Wood

15.6

Metal

4.3


Paper, card and corrugated card packaging

  • With a value percentage of 49% packaging is by far the largest sector of the paper and board converting industry.
  • The amount of packaging recycled from paper, card and corrugated card reached 88%.


Source: Austrian Association of the Paper and Board Converting Industry, Annual report 2011

Plastics

Source: Association of the Austrian Chemical Industry - Plastics, 2011

Companies (plastics processing industry)

562

Staff

25,730

Share of packaging on the total production of the plastics processing industry

16%

Production value of packaging within the plastics processing industry (in Euro)

784

Glass

Source: Assocation of the Austrian Glass Industry, Annual report 2011

Production value in EUR million

1,294

Staff

8,612

Packaging glass production (in metric tons)

397,229

Total selective glass collection for recycling (in metric tons)

229,580

thereof collected by private households (in metric tons)

209,360

Recycling rate

85%


Printing

Source: KMU Forschung Austria. Economic report 2012, Printing

Printing presses (2010)

1,750

Staff (2010)

10,204

Export quota (2011)

17.8%



Last modified
14 May 2013
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